05/19/2007: SNT #1111333333
I had grand plans for tonight’s SNT, but they were stolen by a fever and bronchitis and blunt head trauma.
Discussion Thread: 212 comments 
Get better soon there buddy!!
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Adam @ 05/19/2007 9:01 PM EDT
Blunt head trauma? Do go on…that sounds not so good. o_0
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Paul W. @ 05/19/2007 9:02 PM EDT
By the way… did you ever win that nasty looking Friday the 13th head?
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Adam @ 05/19/2007 9:03 PM EDT
Blunt head trauma? That could be anything. Recover soon.
Wish I could recover from watching my husband play Halo. He doesn’t even like it…it’s a strange ritual, like self-flagellation.
I’m giving you virtual get-better hugs, but you can’t feel them because you’re not wearing a compatible virtual hug jacket.
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Mystie @ 05/19/2007 9:20 PM EDT
D’oh! Best laid plans…
How is everybody?
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The Manimal @ 05/19/2007 9:21 PM EDT
Man, I hope you feel better soon! The best plans you could lay now are to sleep for the rest of the weekend, then eat as much chicken soup as your throat can stand and watching plenty of good movies.
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starwenn @ 05/19/2007 9:34 PM EDT
Feel better, mon capitan, or however you spell that shite.
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K- @ 05/19/2007 9:36 PM EDT
Hope you feel better soon.
Saw Shrek 3 today, it was hilarious, even if I had to put up with people bringing screaming babies to the theater.
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JLAJRC @ 05/19/2007 9:40 PM EDT
Forget the chicken soup. Matt needs Vitamin C…therefore screwdrivers.
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johnny @ 05/19/2007 9:40 PM EDT
Manimal: You are T-minus 60 days to kid. Excited?
Matt: Don’t fall asleep. Head trauma leads to long, long, long naps.
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Bill @ 05/19/2007 9:48 PM EDT
Being sick sucks, I’m guessing some people are more prone to bronchitis, cause I swear it wasn’t that long ago Matt was sick with it for a few weeks?
I did a stupid thing last night and joined god damn facebook, I cannot get off! I add people as friends and I end up spending all my time waiting for their approval and adding more people while I wait.
This weekend is a Canadian long weekend, we have a local carnival that’s here and I really want to take my son on the marry-go-round, I wanted to go today, butmy husband is working, so it’s gonna have to be Monday.
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IHAQ @ 05/19/2007 9:49 PM EDT
Man…I miss the carnival. It has been so long since one has stopped in my town. It is pretty hard to beat a fresh squeezed lemonade and a funnel cake.
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johnny @ 05/19/2007 9:57 PM EDT
Facebook, blech. Myspace is bad enough. When did we start getting invites from people who want to show us their nude videos? Bulletins were bad enough.
Well since that X-E group never happened, I guess I’m stuck with a sorry excuse for a YTMND to call my own.
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K- @ 05/19/2007 9:58 PM EDT
I hope Matt gets better soon; I was just thinking how it wasn’t that long ago that Matt was pretty sick.
Seeing as no one has started one yet, I would like to start a survey: Who do you think is the most overrated actor or actress out there? You can put underrated actors as well. My choice for overrated actress is Scarlett Johanssen, as she comes out as pretty bland in just about every moive I’ve seen her in.
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Thomas @ 05/19/2007 9:59 PM EDT
Man…I miss the carnival. It has been so long since one has stopped in my town. It is pretty hard to beat a fresh squeezed lemonade and a funnel cake.
QFFT. *sigh*
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K- @ 05/19/2007 10:00 PM EDT
We have the local carnival here, too Wed-Sat, but in the grand tradition, it rained every single day. Very few carnivals happen in this town without rain. I did go to the gun show today, which was amusing. I bought two wooden croaking frogs. My friend bought some giant three-pronged sharp ass knife thing. It came with a free whip.
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Mystie @ 05/19/2007 10:01 PM EDT
Happy SNT, all! Feel better, Matt. I hate being sick, although the feeling of being able to breathe normally again after a bad cold is somehow euphoric.
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Matt(#2?) @ 05/19/2007 10:11 PM EDT
Believe me I am not happy that I have facebook, but I had an ex-friend who wants to apologize from the past and the only contact I got was facbook, now I’m addicted.
It rains every year for the carnival, not today, but we’ll have to see Monday, I wish it wasn’t such a assbackwards town and have the carnival open on Sunday too.
The most overrated actor or actress out there? Yell at me if you want but I’m going with Angelina Jolie, she knows she’s the hottest person right now and she loves it way too much, you can see it in her smile with thoughs oversized lips.
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IHAQ @ 05/19/2007 10:16 PM EDT
Angelina was only ever sexy in Hackers.
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K- @ 05/19/2007 10:22 PM EDT
I’ve read as many of the hundreds of hundreds of comments from the last few weeks as I could- but we are all well aware that McDonald’s has brought back Shamrock Shakes in the guise of Shrek Mint Mudbath Shakes? In all honesty, I’ve heard this is the best part of the Shrek Threequill.
Quick- list your summer plans: Mine include building a Macquarium and filling it with triops… and also getting a job inside a Norman Rockwell painting where I sell African masks and sculptures. Don’t laugh, I start tomorrow.
Not at all on topic, if there even really is one…
I had a fun movie night planned at a friends and then like 1/2 an hour ago…his wife’s parents and her sister with her husband show up…what do they do? Start talking….then ask us to start the movie over again….okay, fine, but we’ll get to watch the movies still, even if we’re already almost an hour into it….fuck…but I was still chill…we’re gonna watch a movie….please?
Now what is going on? That should be obvious, as I picked up the laptop and started posting here with you guys…{sigh}…my buddy even left to go ’somewhere’ and since we restarted the movie, these people have done nothing but talk very loud….so much for movie night….
I’m trying to think of a polite way to leave without seeming rude…I think I feel a stomach ache coming on….maybe I’ll cut to the store for some libation and get home in time for Zach Braff on SNL….yeah, I think I ‘really’ do feel sick….time to escape….be back once I get home…
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Shuanfu @ 05/19/2007 10:33 PM EDT
My summer plans: 2 classes, Twilight Princess, sleep, sleep, sleep.
Anyone recommend a good kind of rechargable batteries? I’ve got the Double A, Wiimote blues 
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K- @ 05/19/2007 10:35 PM EDT
Yo K- Energizer Rechargeable 2500 mAh are TOTALLY SICK!
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Anonymous @ 05/19/2007 10:40 PM EDT
Get well, Matt. Not being able to shake illness is terrible. Hell, I’ve already used up 9 sick days this year.
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Lackadaisical @ 05/19/2007 10:45 PM EDT
The price is right, Anon. I’ll give ‘em a shot. Thanks for the tip.
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K- @ 05/19/2007 10:52 PM EDT
James Marsters does not get enough love. (Points to the survey query above) Also, it was always my dream to one day open up a traveling carnival with real side show oddities, like a mind reader and other kinds of strange things, which eerily enough predated Carnivale. I owe a great deal of brain trauma to The Last Unicorn.
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FyarlGirl @ 05/19/2007 10:55 PM EDT
Dang it.
I had this whole speal about how James Marsters is never in anything you can like him in, because c’mon against Hugh Jackman and Ryan Gosling only Keanu and Cusack could hope to win.
But it turns out that is James Marsden. James Marsters is a different d00d 
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K- @ 05/19/2007 11:03 PM EDT
I second that James Marsters has not received any true respect or recognition for his acting/music skills from any group other than the truly obsessed Buffyverse fans. Its really sad. He just has not been given any opportunities to play a lead in a good solid film- independant or mainstream. If he could just get that one break…that one awesome script, that would define him as an actor and not just a sex-symbol for a select group of people. * Rant over. *
Feel better Matt!!!!
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Crazy_Mainer @ 05/19/2007 11:07 PM EDT
There’s a carnival that comes to my town every year called “Stanky’s Roadside Attractions” -the rides look really unsafe, the consession stand workers all have Russian accents, you can win hermit crabs, goldfish, Git R Done mirrors, softcore 90s posters, or pocket knives (by throwing a ring over the handle), AND there’s a “snake man” who lugs 3000 feet anachondas around in 10 gallon tanks! I loves it!
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Ponsonby Britt @ 05/19/2007 11:08 PM EDT
KB: Right on about Real Genius! It’s a winner. Much like Fred’s Slacks.
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Bill @ 05/19/2007 11:13 PM EDT
Hope you feel better Matt. Fevers stink terribly. But there is nothing better IMO then when they break and you feel normal again.
I make some enimies here, but I cannot stand George Clooney. I have no idea what has made him the sexiest man or deserving of awards or anything. I can’t put my finger on it, I just don’t see talent there.
Shaunfu- you made me laugh. YAY for posting anger while in the midst of awkwardness.
johnny- there is nothing better than a good funnel
cake. Or any carnival food for that matter. My personal favorite is pronto pups. I could live on those.
Happy SNT to all. Snl is my only plan this evening and probably some evil MySpacing. I have a facebook too, but have never utilized it. I just got it cause my employees were raving about it but they are all in high school. Getting babysitters at the end of the school year is nearly impossible so I will try to have a social life once again in June.
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kb @ 05/19/2007 11:14 PM EDT
I’ve read as many of the hundreds of hundreds of comments from the last few weeks as I could- but we are all well aware that McDonald’s has brought back Shamrock Shakes in the guise of Shrek Mint Mudbath Shakes? In all honesty, I’ve heard this is the best part of the Shrek Threequill.
Yes. It is definately the Shamrock Shake. I’ve tried it…and I realized I don’t like it. Such a shame, after about 2 or so years of looking…
Speaking of injuries, my voice is shot because of all the screaming I did at 6 Flags Great Adventure yesterday. Luckily, it’s much better now. When I woke up this morning, I could barely talk.
I recently joined the Pokemon 4th Generation on Tuesday with the Pearl version that was given to me from my frat bro, along with a DS. I picked Piplup (2 of my friends, including my bro, chose Turtwig and I don’t like Chimchar). Two problems I have right now:
1) No wifi in my house
2) He forgot to give me the charger for the DS and the batteries died on Thursday. I was just up to the first gym!
Also, Season finale of SNL on tonight! Don’t miss if you watch it!
BILL- Glad you liked it I stil own that movie on a really old heavy VHS tape. (kidneyboy we got another in the club 
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kb @ 05/19/2007 11:22 PM EDT
Hey Matt, sucks that you are sick. Get better. And hope your head doesn’t hurt too much (is there a story here? Turn your illness into an article! We’ll read anything you write.
So today I went to an antique mall and they had a giant VW sign, the kind that would hang outside a dealership. Like 5 feet in diameter.
Problem was, it was $1200 bucks. Ouch. Not to mention the fact that I’d have to rent a truck to move it down to my house (350 miles away)…
RE: Facebook. I’m on it, but I didn’t sign up until AFTER graduating from College. I found it to be great to keep up with friends and their addresses, etc. But some people post all kind of crap on there that frankly, A)I don’t give a damn about and B)Shouldn’t be public.
Happy SNT!
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Cameron T. @ 05/19/2007 11:24 PM EDT
i think blunt head trauma tends to be the beginning of a very very good story. not so much for those involved but definitely for those on the outside, that being said hope you feel better soon.
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danny @ 05/19/2007 11:41 PM EDT
Citygirl: The movie store didn’t have Mirror Mask. I looked because you suggested. You mean that much. (sniff)
There is a whole lack of K over all. It’s kind of like when the birds stop chirping before a tornado.
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Bill @ 05/20/2007 1:08 AM EDT
I actually think Jack Nicholson is overrated. He’s basically a slightly different version of the same character in every movie. Don’t yell at me. Please.
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Lori @ 05/20/2007 1:15 AM EDT
I’m overrated.
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K- @ 05/20/2007 1:33 AM EDT
Time until next Mystie post: 33 seconds.
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Mars @ 05/20/2007 1:37 AM EDT
That sucks! Hope you feel better soon. Don’t worry, there’s always next week 
Earlier today I saw a (sparkly pink) funnel cake truck driving around. There was some discussion of a roadside hijacking.
For me, most overrated might have to be Ben Stiller. I like him okay, I just don’t see how he’s any kind of comedic genius. Same goes for Will Ferrell.
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squee4242 @ 05/20/2007 1:59 AM EDT
I have to go with that, Squee. I really like The Ben Stiller Show, but very few of his movies live up to the hype.
Says the man who owns Feel This Book. Dan Blocker is his guardian angel. That’s all I remember from it. I should re-read it, maybe I’ll get something more out of it now. OR I could watch Mystery Men.
Jesus I was all about that song back in 99. Now just look what Smash Mouth have done to themselves. Quite sad really.
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K- @ 05/20/2007 2:11 AM EDT
Bronchitis is a real bitch. :\
I agree with you too, squee4242. Ben Stiller isn’t that funny. Will Ferrell is irritating as hell. The only movie I’ve been able to stand him in was The Producers.
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Annette @ 05/20/2007 2:21 AM EDT
Anchorman is just epic. At first, I hated it. I actually fell asleep in the theatre. I gave it a second chance and was entranced.
Though, the commentary track is almost funnier than the movie, thanks to Koechner.
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K- @ 05/20/2007 2:33 AM EDT
Nicholas Cage is way overrated. He ain’t handsome - why do they keep putting him in roles where he’s supposed to be?
Take it easy, Matt, get some pampering from your woman, and get well!
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Moony @ 05/20/2007 2:50 AM EDT
Kyle and Norbert:
I too thought that McDonald’s had brought back the shamrock shake disguised as Shrek crap, but it’s no replacement. The chocolate in the new shake really ruins it. I love shamrock shakes more than life itself and I could barely stomach this new monstrosity.
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jalansk0 @ 05/20/2007 3:00 AM EDT
Nicholas Cage is way overrated. He ain’t handsome - why do they keep putting him in roles where he’s supposed to be?
I like Nick Cage. Like, fo real, I nearly wet myself at least a half dozen times during Ghost Rider. Leather pants? Motorcycles? Yes please!
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Mystie @ 05/20/2007 3:03 AM EDT
In case anyone was concerned…I managed my escape very smoothly….on the way home I passed another friends house -you know everyone where I live- and noticed a few cars outside…..turn in, do the pop in, have a great chat, watch SNL -okay, but still not great; more fun with the crowd I was in- and just got home a few mo’s ago….moral of the story: when your night turns shitty, fix it!
And Invader Norbert, you probably know this, but any good game retailer will sell extra/replacement power charging plugs. I also am okay with admitting I got da Pokeman -4th gen was my first- and become sadly addicted to it for a week and a half. Need to pick it up again.
If you’ve never had a DS before and want a fun game that works great in short spurts, I highly recommend Elite Beat Agents. Super game. I actually have Ouendan 2 (sequel to the Jananese original) on the way right now. Also, I recommend the larger ‘pen’ stylus, they are cheap and so much better than the tiny on with the system. Finally, the Armor Lite case is an awesome and cheap way to keep you DS sharp and safe…check in out on the interweb if your interested…I actually may get the NERF case if I can find one in black….
and…….scene
This Nintendo ramble has been brought to you today by the letter C, the numbers 4 and 7, and way to many years playing video games…..
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Shuanfu @ 05/20/2007 3:04 AM EDT
feel better Matt… somehow, I got picked to review a sitcom pilot, its getting sent this week and they’ll call me to get my opinion
I cannot stand George Clooney. I have no idea what has made him the sexiest man or deserving of awards or anything. I can’t put my finger on it, I just don’t see talent there.
I think it all boils down to one cinematic masterpiece: Return of the Killer Tomatoes. Once you watch that little gem you’ll be a fan for life, guaranteed.
I second the Armor Lite recommendation, especially if you have a black (Onyx) DS. I picked it up on Shaun’s advice and it is indispensable. No more fingerprints, no more smudges. The best thing about my DS is the DS itself, since the only game I’ve ever had for it is Final Fantasy III.
Phantom Hourglass shall be mine just to make up for this grave injustice.
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K- @ 05/20/2007 3:20 AM EDT
First time caller, long time listener.
Did anybody here win the ugly ball on ebay? I entirely forgot about bonkers candy and the ugly ball until I saw this site. I am so pissed that I missed the chance to bid on it. I was out later today than I originally thought I would be.
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jack @ 05/20/2007 4:06 AM EDT
I have a feeling that we won’t be hearing from Matt until the Halloween Countdown. Be prepared to see this happening more often. Rest well Matt.
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Joe @ 05/20/2007 5:17 AM EDT
mandy_reeves: Tell them it needs to be more like Firefly. In fact, just tell them to bring back Firefly. Even if it’s not Fox. No, especially if it’s not Fox.
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Jedoc @ 05/20/2007 8:34 AM EDT
Matt’s short post made me think of “Massive Head Wound Harry,” the Dana Carvey SNL skit that was so obviously an attempt at a recurring character but never really caught on.
“I’ve lost a lot of blood on the way over here.”
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Thorzul @ 05/20/2007 8:48 AM EDT
Wow!! I agree with everyone’s overrated actors (even the “controversial” ones like Jack Nicholson). All of my students love Nic Cage. Oustide of RAISING ARIZONA, I haven’t seen much greatness.
Bill, not quite time yet but it feels like it. It’s amazing and sad how little attention the 2nd one is getting already since the 2 year old is a force of nature. However, I have a feeling that the scales will tip once the 2nd one enters the world. CLASH OF THE TITANS II and this time it’s perso-nallll 
Summer plans-Working on various whatnots and hustles. None of which I want to do.
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The Manimal @ 05/20/2007 9:31 AM EDT
Matt - I hope you’re feeling better today.
Moony - I totally agree with you. Nicolas Cage sucks ass, like, in every way possible, IMO. He’s not good looking, and can’t act his way out of a wet paper bag. Bleh. When I heard he was going to be Ghost Rider, I wanted to barf. I just can’t stand the guy!
I need breakfast.
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Ryane @ 05/20/2007 10:48 AM EDT
Thursday I got for 70 cents Best of Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader at Goodwill! NEAT! For those of you not on the same page, Matt got one of those books for Christmas. This continues my journey to be as cool as he is.
I also got two books from the Sesame street book series for my cousin’s daughter she’s 18 and she had a baby in October that I am living through her enjoyment. I am feeling very strong maternal urges. The books are from a series that was made in the early 80’s I wish I could afford the old school sesame street dvd so she can avoid the elmo sell out fest that show is now. I want to get her the complete series very slowly of those books so that is fun. They were 50 cents a piece and very slightly scribbled on. A wonderful bright little boy drew a hand on one of the blank white pages. He drew a line on the tip of the finger (under the first joint) to represent the fingernail. But it has a sesame street version of Rupunzel isn’t that great when they used to do that? The muppets too! I am not being sarcastic I really like that. Even though I was being sarcastic about the drawing. I also got an Arthur book but it was a newer one so that’s not as neat. I seen a purple disney little mermaid pair of overalls too but I couldn’t afford to buy them without putting everything else back. But they were so neat I’ll try to find other ones like it before her kid is that age. They were 4T’s so they were roomy. I am seeing her today it’s going to be KEWL lol.
See you all later!
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Goob @ 05/20/2007 11:14 AM EDT
Just got back from New York, and wow, I’m exhausted. I got to meet Martha Stewart, and she was pretty cool. Very tall.
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Tommy @ 05/20/2007 11:21 AM EDT
Yesterday was my birthday. I got a T.I.E. fighter and some money so I’m a happy camper. Well, I was until I saw that you were sick Matt. Now I’m a downy clowny. : (
Tommy, did you ask Martha if her dick was bigger than Chyna’s?
P.S. Happy bday DP.
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Mystie @ 05/20/2007 11:43 AM EDT
Happy Belated Birthday, Darth Poop! Yay for money and TIE fighters!
I went out with some co-workers last night to Uno’s. It was like a goodbye party for our boss who’s getting transferred to another store. He’s the coolest boss EVER. I’m gonna miss him… 
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Ryane @ 05/20/2007 11:51 AM EDT
sYou know you guys are the only people I ‘know’ that agree with me on the idea that Will Ferrell is extremely overrated? Everywhere else people just tell me I don’t ‘get’ the joke. What they don’t understand is that I get it; it’s just not funny….never have I been a fan of actors or movies that try to ‘force the funny’, as if they take it so far that they almost should have words on the screen saying “This is funny. You are going to laugh. If not at first, you will, because we will beat you over the head with it until you think it is funny. Then we will instill many quotes from this scene into the dialect of all your friends until you have to except this as funny, only because everyone else does…be the sheep you were born to be and BAAAAH with the rest of them and laugh damn it!!” Will was prefectly suited for something like SNL but I just don’t enjoy him when he streches a character that is (sometimes) entertaining in a five minute scetch and puts it into a long ass movie…
I am also not a fan of actors that never try anything new, which leads me to agree with previous statements about Jack Nicholson and Ben Stiller. But I am a bit more forgiving of these folks than I am of the “beat you over the head” funny types. I’ve enjoyed a few Stiller movies, but not usually because of him. Same for Jack. In fact, I really only ever liked ‘Jack the actor’ in three movies: Batman, As Good As It Gets (even though it is him, just a different breed of crazy), and The Departed. I look at Tom Hanks the same way; he is talented but he plays very similiar character types.
That’s why I’m such a huge fan of actors like Johnny Depp. Love him or hate him, it is really hard to say that very many of the characters he plays are very similiar. He truly builts a character from the ground up -not just with a slight voice change and maybe a slight accent (Tom Hanks ala The Terminal)- He moves beyond what is a decent impression (Will Ferrell’s Ricky Bobby and Anchorman) and creates a living person.
Man, I sure am rather long winded this weekend
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Shuanfu @ 05/20/2007 1:06 PM EDT
Back when I was five I was in a three wheeled shopping cart at Wal-Mart. My mom went over a curb and it fell over, causing me to smash my head into the parking lot. I was almost instantly knocked out and ended up suffering from amnesia and a pretty decent concussion. After that, I’ve spent the last fifteen years of my life undergoing tests from the Baylor College of Medicine to make sure my head werk gud. Not every day, mind you, but once every six to eight months or so. The cool part is that they would pay me for the tests and also said I perform unusually well at mazes and reaction time tests. Had I not ever needed to venture to the medical district, my love for Chipotle would never have been…
In short, I too know the pain of blunt force head trauma, Matt.
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Ben @ 05/20/2007 1:12 PM EDT
Matt, I feel your pain. My girlfriend gets bronchitis at least once a year. Three words: Codeine cough syrup.
Gets you to sleep on those annoying, cough-riddled nights. And it’s also fun after you’re all better and all the bars are closed.
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ColonelCatsup @ 05/20/2007 1:22 PM EDT
I don’t care if this gets deleted or not.
FUCK YOU gervanator and Brandon. Ungrateful little pantywaste internet trolls. You get a real life/real career/real responsibilities and then you come back to insult Matt.
Of course, I’ll still say the same thing when you do, so don’t even bother with the “BUT I DO” rebuttle. The updates may be more few and far between these days, but we are striving. We’re making 200 posts per entry on average (don’t give me ‘it’s because they’re up for so long,’ they’d just be more evenly distributed if they weren’t). We’re still here and its a testament to Matt and all that he has done.
If you want to leave, go right ahead. We don’t need you, and we don’t want you.
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K- @ 05/20/2007 1:31 PM EDT
I don’t care if this gets deleted or not.
F*CK YOU gervanator and Brandon. Ungrateful little pantywaste internet trolls. You get a real life/real career/real responsibilities and then you come back to insult Matt.
Of course, I’ll still say the same thing when you do, so don’t even bother with the “BUT I DO” rebuttle. The updates may be more few and far between these days, but we are striving. We’re making 200 posts per entry on average (don’t give me ‘it’s because they’re up for so long,’ they’d just be more evenly distributed if they weren’t). We’re still here and its a testament to Matt and all that he has done.
If you want to leave, go right ahead. We don’t need you, and we don’t want you.
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K- @ 05/20/2007 1:34 PM EDT
*Only cause I got approval binned. People can shit talk Matt and the site all they want but when I try to defend them, well that’s just not allowed 
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K- @ 05/20/2007 1:35 PM EDT
Matt: Take all the time you need, man. It struck me the other day when reading an article from 2001 that the dedication you give to XE is not in question. Writing articles for years about everything and nothing takes alot of talent so if you need the summer to recharge you do it. Just remember that your loved pal.
By the way, were you the kid in elementry school that had to buy juice instead of milk because of allegies and asthma? I was. I had to make up for that by bringing my A game to the four-square court.
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Bill @ 05/20/2007 1:43 PM EDT
Hear hear!
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ColonelCatsup @ 05/20/2007 1:46 PM EDT
We’re pretty self-sufficient here anyways. We can entertain ourselves until our fearless leader recovers\finds time\etc.
BTW, I need you guys to help me out. There was a monster truck toy that had claws pop out of the wheels. I need to prove it exists to my gf. I thought I saw an article once here but I just might be crazy.
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9Line @ 05/20/2007 2:01 PM EDT
Although I don’t have a fiery passion against Will Ferrell, I as well do not see him as a comedic genius. I thought he was fine on SNL, but his movies are annoying.
Mike Myers is kinda the same for me. I loved him on SNL and the first Waynes world and So I Married An Axe Murderer, but everything he’s done since then bores me.
And I would just like to say, that beyond the hundreds of funny and amazing articles on this site, I am here daily just to read the blog.
And can I be annoying and suggest a medicine for you, Matt? I had a the sickness for a month last fall, the only thing that helped at all was this hippie type cough syrup called Umcka I got from the co-op. It’s made from a root grown in South Africa.
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kb @ 05/20/2007 2:02 PM EDT
http://www.ibelieveinharveydenttoo.com
im surprised some people here don’t think Jack is a good actor, have you ever seen “One Flew Over the Coocoo’s Nest?”
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Joker @ 05/20/2007 2:02 PM EDT
Get Better Soon, Matt!
Did you happen to catch my Nickelodeon email? I hope that wasn’t what caused the blunt head trauma
Way to represent,K. When a group faces an opponent, they gotta unify and close ranks. If Matt needs the summer off, kudos to him for recognizing his needs. I can wait for the Halloween countdown, just so long as I write poetry on rainy Friday nights about how I love rainy Friday nights, and also just so long as I don’t think about chicken when I’m eating Doritos.
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Fyarlgirl @ 05/20/2007 2:55 PM EDT
I’ve been flamed by three people in one SNT! Shit! Oh wait…why did three people have one IP address?
Deleted posts notwithstanding, I’ve just been busy, and this week, ill. Thanks for continuing to chill even when I’m not. :) Will be back soon…better days are ahead.
Also, there is nothing good on TV Sunday afternoons.
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Matt @ 05/20/2007 3:57 PM EDT
9Line — you’re talking about The Animal!
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Matt @ 05/20/2007 3:59 PM EDT
I’ve decided to sit here and post about how sick I am until 5 PM.
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Matt @ 05/20/2007 4:04 PM EDT
(4:13 PM) Very sick. Temperature in the 101-102 range. Won’t get into the more gruesome specifics, but admit that I can fill an empty tub of Kenner’s RGB Ecto-Plazm and nobody would be the wiser.
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Matt @ 05/20/2007 4:14 PM EDT
With a temp that high, shouldn’t you be in the hospital instead?
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JLAJRC @ 05/20/2007 4:15 PM EDT
(4:18) I’m currently taking antibiotics, Ibuprofen, Theraflu, Nyquil and delicious strawberry Halls cough drops. You’d think that this combo would at least knock me the fuck out in not actually make me feel better, but here I am, wide awake and hurting. I’ve also developed one of those situations where, when I sneeze, sharp, hideous debilitating pains shoot through my entire body, from head to toe. As if I was being pummeled by Palpatine’s lightning.
JLA: No way, I don’t think a temp would warrant a hospital visit until it hit the 104-105 range. I’m probably in doctor range, but anything below 101 is just a flesh wound, baby.
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Matt @ 05/20/2007 4:18 PM EDT
(4:23) I wish it was Saturday, because I had a couple of assignments that were due tomorrow, and there’s no way they are getting done. I’ve already begun sending e-mails out in the hopes to exaggerate my position as a dying man, but the truth is, being sick and working at the same time feels something like having your dick bit off by Satan’s dog twice. And I do not have two dicks.
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Matt @ 05/20/2007 4:23 PM EDT
(4:26) Whoa whoa whoa, I’ve located Ferris Bueller’s Day Off! Something good on TV! Sadly stashed away on some network called “We” that I’ve never heard of before stumbling onto it a minute ago, I’m just now realizing that I’ve caught the movie in its final minutes. Damn. Totally missed Jennifer Grey’s triple-kick.
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Matt @ 05/20/2007 4:27 PM EDT
Um, isn’t We Women’s Entertainment? Damn, you are sick man.
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Bill @ 05/20/2007 4:31 PM EDT
(4:32) …and following Ferris is Regarding Henry. Dilemma is, I chucked the remote control onto the floor after finding Ferris, knowing that nothing else on TV would beat Ferris. But now Ferris is over and Fucking Regarding Henry is on, and I’m too sick to crawl over to where the remote is.
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Matt @ 05/20/2007 4:33 PM EDT
Bill…is it? I don’t know. Could be. Kind of does feel like Lifetime’s little sister.
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Matt @ 05/20/2007 4:34 PM EDT
Yeah, WE is Women’s Entertainment. And don’t front, you’re too lazy to get the remote sick or not. 
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Mystie @ 05/20/2007 4:36 PM EDT
‘Fraid so…I used to live with my girlfriend and I got to know that stuff. I also made a snide comment about Oprah and was promptly kicked in the balls.
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Bill @ 05/20/2007 4:36 PM EDT
I feel like I’m reading someone’s death journal. I’m not even sure death journal is just something I made up or not.
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dohopoki @ 05/20/2007 4:42 PM EDT
(4:41) Was starting to feel winded in an upright position, and now I’m somewhere between upright and flat — positioned kind of like how a dead body would be if shoved inside a washing machine box before rigor mortis set in. Rigor mortis is a funny word. Or pair of words.
In this new position, I’m not so much watching Regarding Henry as I am our fish tank, which is down to one lonesome parrot. We used to have a bunch of parrots, a big ass Geophagus, something called a “dolphin whale” and a couple of other things in there. Now it’s just a parrot. And when the parrot dies? I add salt and a mantis shrimp.
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Matt @ 05/20/2007 4:42 PM EDT
(4:34) Girlfriend enters the room. She’s sick too, but not as sick. She disagrees. I want her to get remote. She disagrees, on basis of her being sick as well. I challenge her theory, referencing the several instances over the weekend where she’s refused to take her temperature after me. Please. If you know you have a temperature, the first thing you do is find a thermometer so you can validate your patheticness. If you don’t want to check your temp, it’s because you doubt the validity of your supposed fever. In short, she’s a faker and she should have gotten me the remote control.
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Matt @ 05/20/2007 4:47 PM EDT
(4:47) Fuck, the last post should’ve been time-marked 4:47. Time-marked?
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Matt @ 05/20/2007 4:47 PM EDT
You’re telling me you’re not watching Planet Earth? I could watch that in repeats for the rest of my life. Especially in HD.
(4:51) Thrilled by Jessica’s suggestion, I crawl over to the remote, and then back. It takes a good minute. I put on Planet Earth. AUGH it’s not on for another 10 minutes.
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Matt @ 05/20/2007 4:51 PM EDT
Doho: I think those things exist. Last night on VH1 was a documentary on the last days on the life on TLC’s Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes. It’s basically video footage that she shot almost a month before her death. It was creepy knowing it was coming, but also fascinating.
Yeesh, this is one morbid thread.
Yesterday, I watched Harry and the Hendersons on HBO. Today I watched The Music Man.
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JLAJRC @ 05/20/2007 4:51 PM EDT
(4:52) Discovery Channel is great but they have a lot of shitty show promos. Thirty seconds of “outtakes” from the mustached dudes from American Chopper? Fuck you Discovery.
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Matt @ 05/20/2007 4:53 PM EDT
Stupid-ass trolls. Glad to hear from you Matt
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K- @ 05/20/2007 4:55 PM EDT
(4:56) Just remembered that we have Pepperidge Farm Goldfish crackers, which despite my fever and cough and death somehow seem very appetizing. The trek to the remote control was one thing, but I’ll never make it to the kitchen and back without going through enough torment to render whatever pleasures might be brought forth by a pack of goldfish moot.
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Matt @ 05/20/2007 4:56 PM EDT
Have you ever seen the Haunted episodes on Discovery. I don’t know what to think. Is it educational or spooky entertainment with people who are upside down in their mortages? Even Shark week is a whole week pumping a new Discovery show. ie. Myth Busters, Dirty Jobs, Ho’s on Tricycles..
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Bill @ 05/20/2007 4:58 PM EDT
(4:58) Contemplating doing this until 6 PM, because it’s the most lucid I’ve felt since Thursday night.
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Matt @ 05/20/2007 4:58 PM EDT
it’s our word against there’s, JLAJRC.
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dohopoki @ 05/20/2007 4:59 PM EDT
(5:01) I’m watching a commercial for 7-UP that features farmers harvesting vined cans of 7-UP out in the soil. The 7-UP cans are about twice the size they normally are, and I’m wondering if I can’t persuade the people behind 7-UP to release six-packs as such.
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Matt @ 05/20/2007 5:02 PM EDT
I’m streaming episodes of Bobby’s World on kabillion.com in between drugged-up Matt posts.
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Mystie @ 05/20/2007 5:05 PM EDT
Um…this is funny. Matt and everyone else you are making me once again very upset that I cancelled cable. I think I may have to rejoin the TV cult.
I am making my son Spiderman Mac and Cheese, and despite the graphics on the box it’s just plain old macaroni. Any suggestions as to what I can say the mac is in reference to Spiderman so my son doesn’t disown me?
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kb @ 05/20/2007 5:10 PM EDT
I’ve been kicked off of my Wii by my parents and my godfather. Though, there is a chance that the Colonel will be dropping by for a visit.
We just got back from Target. He seduced me with the guide for Twilight Princess. The sad part is that my sad-sack self actually bit. But, you can only dangle a strategy guide in an OCD’s face, they have to payroll it
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K- @ 05/20/2007 5:10 PM EDT
(5:11) Giant salamanders on Planet Earth. Yay! Vicious bastards, too. Oh my god my eyes hurt pain pain. Why am I still up? You know how, when you have a fever, looking at any point or edge makes your eyes sting terribly? Yeah. Basically, any corner on a square or rectangular object that catches my eye makes my eyes feel like they’re getting stabbed.
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Matt @ 05/20/2007 5:11 PM EDT
(5:12) Reads kb’s post, offers suggestion: Tell him the mac shapes are Superman’s swords, even though they’re tubes, and even though Superman wields no swords. I still think it’ll work.
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Matt @ 05/20/2007 5:13 PM EDT
Geez Beasties man that sounds painful. What happened to you again?
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Terror Claws Cole @ 05/20/2007 5:15 PM EDT
(5:14) Planet Earth was not mixing well with my current mood, so I’m switching to the end-all, be-all, just starting on HBO Family: Scrooged! Hell yes!
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Matt @ 05/20/2007 5:15 PM EDT
Hey Matt. Good to hear from you. Looks like I’m going to be refreshing in between games.. Anyone played Kingdom Hearts II? I’m stuck on the battle with the stupid water guitar guy.. ARGH!
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Nigel Chaos @ 05/20/2007 5:20 PM EDT
(4:58) Terror Claws, the story goes like this… The woman was already getting sick, and when we got home on Thursday, she went straight to bed. I stayed up and drank two martinis, passed out, and woke up at 2 AM with a fever, despite having absolutely no symptoms prior to that. It’s gotten a little worse each day since.
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Matt @ 05/20/2007 5:22 PM EDT
Demyx? Use the reaction command to swing one of the clones around and destroy alot of them at once. Keep doing that, and whacking him whenever the timer’s go away. If you’re in the garrison.
Are you in that battle or the first one? In Hades? Same strategy either way.
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K- @ 05/20/2007 5:22 PM EDT
(5:22) Incorrectly time-stamped previous post. :( Why am I bothering to time-stamp, anyway? They’re already time-stamped automatically.
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Matt @ 05/20/2007 5:23 PM EDT
Man, After Reading that Animal thread, It reminded me that I used to own one of those. I had a yellow corvette looking one. That thing was awesome, until I made it try to climb over our long haired dog, then the claws got tangled up and the just kept winding the hair tighter and tighter into the tires. Long story short, it got taken away from me and my dog had four bald spots on his back where we had to shave him.
Does anyone remember the line of toys that were construction vehicles that were decked out in armor and guns. They really looked Road Warrior esque. I cant for the life of me remember what they were named. They were about the size of Tonka trucks, I had a Road Grater and what I think was a cross between a jeep and a bronco. But anyway, those things were awesome and quickly became the vehicle of choice for all of my toys.
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Jester @ 05/20/2007 5:25 PM EDT
(5:25) Starting to feel especially ridiculous. Taking a break. May or may not return.
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Matt @ 05/20/2007 5:25 PM EDT
Man that sucks. I’d suggest remedies but it sounds like you’re taking half the medicine cabinet already. Don’t you have some rockin’ DVD collection you could raid? Sounds like medicine is the perfect preparation for any of the Nightmare on Elm Street movies…
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Terror Claws Cole @ 05/20/2007 5:26 PM EDT
Sorry for the super quick double posts, but Jester, you may be thinking of “Steel Monsters”.
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Terror Claws Cole @ 05/20/2007 5:27 PM EDT
And it’s a Sitar, not a guitar. Not one of my favorite organization members. I prefer Axel, Zexion, and Xigbar
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K- @ 05/20/2007 5:30 PM EDT
(5:30) Forgot that Daniel Clamp was in Scrooged. This news has inspired me to stay a little while longer, despite the immense coughing fit of half a minute ago.
Terror: Dream Warriors doesn’t sound like such a bad idea right now, actually.
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Matt @ 05/20/2007 5:31 PM EDT
THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT THEY WERE!!!!! Oh man! after doing a quick Google search I found out that I owned “Wheel Boss” and “Masher”
Man, looking back, these toys weren’t that special. Yet I would protect these things like I owned the holy grail or something.
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Jester @ 05/20/2007 5:31 PM EDT
Amazingly the “swords” were a hit. He asked, “why didn’t you make the spiderweb kind?” I said they are spiderman’s Swords He made a long pause then said, “Oh.”
Maybe I can get away with making spiderman swords outta the generic variety now.
so thanks.
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kb @ 05/20/2007 5:32 PM EDT
Here’s a link in case anyone wanted to check out these badass toys http://www.toymania.com/334archives/steel/enforcer.htm
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Jester @ 05/20/2007 5:33 PM EDT
Last Time I post, I swear.
I hope Matt is still around because there is a NEW RAMBO TRAILER!!!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rx6i090FGzQ
Stallone Returns as John Rambo!!!!!!!
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Jester @ 05/20/2007 5:39 PM EDT
What is he in Iraq this time? I’m not one to complain, I mean Rocky Balboa was fantastical to me. And well I love bad Stallone movies.
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They call me Drinkenstein…and K- @ 05/20/2007 5:53 PM EDT
(5:54) I can’t believe that Frank Cross’s cab driver is the same guy that ate a cat in the Tales from the Darkside movie, much less the same guy who sung “Hot Hot Hot.”
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Matt @ 05/20/2007 5:54 PM EDT
Matt, you’re probably wide awake because you’re over-medicating. I’m no doctor, but that sounds like a ton of medications. Maybe you should just stick to NyQuil? That usually knocks me on my ass for 8 or 9 hours.
Regarding death journals, I have heard of at least one such, though I haven’t read it. Supposedly a guy working on nuclear weapons brought two pieces of plutonium together, and combined they were above critical mass. He saw a blue flash (really bad news when working with radioactive material) and moved the pieces apart. However, he’d already received a lethal dose of radiation. He started writing down his symptoms as he died over the next few hours/days from radiation poisoning. One of my more morbid colleagues at work (a radiological controls engineer) claims to have read it. I would think anyone but him was bullshitting me, but he’s not the type to spread urban legends or pull my leg.
I hear the ice-cream man coming! Yay!
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spaz307 @ 05/20/2007 5:55 PM EDT
That John Rambo trailer seemed more like a 3 minute Rambo movie, I’m really not sure there could be anything more to what I just saw.
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dohopoki @ 05/20/2007 5:56 PM EDT
Ok, after having watched the trailer a coupe of times. Something was bothering me. I couldn’t place my finger on it, then it hit me. This movie looks like it’s going to be over the top ridiculous and Way more than usual. It’s like they watched the UHF parody of the Rambo movies, and thought “Hey, thats not half bad!” so they based the new movie off of the parody that Weird Al did that was making fun of the movie in the first place.
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Jester @ 05/20/2007 6:08 PM EDT
(6:08) I just got an e-mail asking me to appraise an old Billy Kidman WWE action figure with the Undertaker’s “SARA” tattoo on its neck in error. My eyes hurt when I try to read e-mails.
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Matt @ 05/20/2007 6:08 PM EDT
I’ll go with that, Doho. What else could they do?
Wasn’t it originally titled Eye of the Serpent? I guess the idea is use the characters’ full names for the last movies in series?
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K- @ 05/20/2007 6:10 PM EDT
i just thought i’d say hello
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phunqsauce @ 05/20/2007 6:16 PM EDT
Ahhh, Scrooged. What a great flick. I can’t believe my parents used to let me watch it as a kid, though…
spaz, I heard the ice cream truck drive by about 17 times one weekend, but I didn’t have any damn money. The world is such an unfair place. ;_; At least ice cream trucks still exist, though. I was under the impression that they were an endangered species…
Geez, Matt, it sounds like you have, like, the Iranian Death Flu or something. I hate trying to offer advice because it always sounds stupid, but be sure to drink a lot of water.
By the way, does anybody else hate Sunday afternoons as much as I do?
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Annette @ 05/20/2007 6:17 PM EDT
Hello, phunq. Also, I forgot to wish the Poopinator a happy birthday!
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K- @ 05/20/2007 6:19 PM EDT
Many thanks to all the happy birthday wishers! Jester those toys look awesome, I’m not surprised that you coveted them when you were but a tike. Heck, I want them right now! Matt You just have to persevere. You know what I do when I’m sick? I… well I, uh… well I do a lot of dieing inside… I’m no help. : (
(7:10) Caught a bad wave of sick. Now I’m attempting to make tea with honey to quell my body’s desire to expire. Scrooged is over. While watching, I started reading random reviews of the film, and was shocked to find that Roger Ebert absolutely hated it. “One star,” he says! He’s a bad man.
Some Lassie movie came on after Scrooged, so I’m again searching for good TV. Batman’s on, but I’m not in the right mood. The Terminator is on, but I watched that yesterday. King of the Hill it is.
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Matt @ 05/20/2007 7:11 PM EDT
OK, I have a confession to make. I am a graduate of the Institute of Culinary Education in New York, for our final exam we had to create a menu for a 600 dollar a plate dinner and make sure every single patron (There were about 350) was pleased and we had no complaints.
Why am I telling you this. Because today, I screwed up. Do to the talk of Spider-man Mac and Cheese and whatnot, I thought to myself, Man that would hit the spot. So after perusing my cabinets, the only thing I had Mac and Cheese wise was the microwavable kind, So I put the noodles in the included bowl, dump in the cheese powder and let it cook.
I forgot the water……Yes thats right, I forgot to put the water into the dry powder and dry noodle mix.
Talk about humbling, Now I need to get a new microwave and explain to my girlfriend why the fire dept stopped by our apartments today. Not to mention the fire dept. themselves laughed at me.
Ugh, what a shitty day
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Jester @ 05/20/2007 7:15 PM EDT
I knew no good could ever come of those Easy Mac-like things. :P Don’t get me wrong, I like mac n’ cheese as much as the next person, but that microwave stuff is just nasty. I personally like the Annie’s kind with the bunny rabbit on the box.
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Annette @ 05/20/2007 7:25 PM EDT
Anyone ever heard of that show Jericho?
Apparently it got cancelled this week and from what iv heard, the fanbase has been drving CBS nuts trying to get it back. Pretty funny stuff.
I heard that one fan even sent a singing telogram to CBS’s corporate office the is suppoosed to show up tommorow.
BTW: Get better Matt
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Chris @ 05/20/2007 7:40 PM EDT
Feel better soon! Go pick up the new Shrek glasses at McDonald’s they are too pretty!
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Jen @ 05/20/2007 7:58 PM EDT
Catching “a bad wave of sick” sounds really, really horrid. Worst/best description of illness award.
It wasn’t as bad as it sounds; fortunately, it hasn’t been that kind of sick. I’m really impressed with how my fever seems to go up and down every 10-15 minutes though.
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Matt @ 05/20/2007 8:06 PM EDT
I wonder if that means it’s getting better or worse. Good luck fighting it off buddy!
I was going to say nobody could be having a worse day then Matt, with all the dying and all. But Jester might actually come close with that story. You’re never hearing the end of that one
Shuanfu, I’m with you for the most part, but I love Jack Nicholson. I mean, just for Cuckoo’s Nest, Batman, and I dunno, let’s say…Witches of Eastwick alone I’m a fan for life. Go Lakers.
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squee4242 @ 05/20/2007 8:13 PM EDT
Thanks K-, but I already beat him.. I was in the second battle with him.. I kept having trouble with the “DANCE, WATER, DANCE!” part.. I could beat the first part with the 50 guys.. but I kept dying when it was just 10 of them because I’d kill 9 of them and run out of time on the 10th.. happened like 8 times.. so I played The Sims 2 for a little and came back to it and beat the tar out of him. I’m actually kind of an Axel fan.. He’s pretty fleshed out.. Family Guy time!
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Nigel Chaos @ 05/20/2007 9:22 PM EDT
Family Guy + Back To The Future… MMM tasty.
They used that “new sound” joke before though.. I forget which episode..
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Nigel Chaos @ 05/20/2007 9:32 PM EDT
Does anyone else really miss Pop Up Video?
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kb @ 05/20/2007 9:41 PM EDT
Well, there is a Michael Keaton/Nicole Kidman movie called “My Life” about a man who has a terminal disease and makes a video journal for his soon to be born son. A great movie, but also a tearjerker.
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JLAJRC @ 05/20/2007 9:48 PM EDT
Yeah! I really dislike Michael Keaton, but that’s a good movie, mang.
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K- @ 05/20/2007 9:53 PM EDT
Whoa! Pop Up Video. I haven’t thought about that one for a while. You find out the coolest info fro that show. I remember that song Science! It’s poetry in motion..yadda yadda. If it wasn’t for Pop Up Video I would have never known that guy killed himself.
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Bill @ 05/20/2007 9:58 PM EDT
Pop in to POP UP VIDEO… ::nostalgic sigh:: I miss videos in general.. now most videoes are like visual masturbation.. BTW.. Thomas Dolby is alive and well.. Link in my name!
I had to work until close last night (sat) and then OPEN the bookstore today…and work until close! SICK! I have been working all weekend, and missed SNT in its entirety, instead reading the entire thread right now.
Scrooged rocks. I knew that even when I was 10 or whatever.
shuanfu = That was a good story- thanks for sharing the details of your night.
Jester= Wow. That’s all I can say is wow. That sucks! My boyfriend and I once started a fire because we were too um ‘busy’ to pay attention to a flaming candle.
Matt = Get better, man. Take your time and do what you need to do. Thanks for the death journal, though.
Mmmmm…Mac and Cheese (or as we Canucks say, “Kraft Dinner”).
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Muppet Baby @ 05/20/2007 10:06 PM EDT
And Pop Up Video was amazing. Back when videos MEANT something.
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Muppet Baby @ 05/20/2007 10:07 PM EDT
They still show Pop Up sometimes, I think on Vh1 Classic.
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squee4242 @ 05/20/2007 10:16 PM EDT
Nigel: Really?!?! I thought he had some manic disorder and killed himself.
He’s Alive! He’s Alive!
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Bill @ 05/20/2007 10:17 PM EDT
What’s everyone’s favourite music video?? Mine is “1979″ by The Smashing Pumpkins.. a perfect mix of imagery and music.. “Tonight, Tonight” is a close second!
/Huge Smashing Pumpkins fan
Tonight, Tonight is WAY up there for me.
My favs:
Basketcase–Green Day
Dammit–Blink 182
Allstar–Smash Mouth
Keep Fishin’–Weezer
Ocean Avenue–Yellowcard
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K- @ 05/20/2007 10:27 PM EDT
Let’s see…
ACDC “Jailbreak ‘74″ Vintage!
Billy Squire - “Stroke” I liked the way they were dressed. You couldn’t tell if they were going to play a show or going to paint the garage. wife beaters, white jeans and converse.
anything from The Wall, Yellow Submarine, and The Song Remains the Same.
Kiss- “Lick It Up” Mulletude of 11
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Bill @ 05/20/2007 10:32 PM EDT
Holy Crap, Matt, your writing is engrossing even when you’re sick.
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Cameron T. @ 05/20/2007 10:37 PM EDT
Alright, here’s some exposition, because you want to read it, and I want to type it:
Basketcase: At the end of the day, I’m a very simple creature. I absolutely adore anything more colorful than the rainbow and this video is just absolutely trippy and beautiful. Plus it is quite simply one of their best songs. They have written many songs that are more meaningful and moving, but this is the one I play first for anyone not initiated. It says it all. “Do you have the time to listen to me whine about nothing and everything all at once?” Well do ya?
Dammit: Floored me the same way Basketcase did. The first time I saw it, the world stopped rotating for 2 minutes and change. Another song that says it all.
Allstar: I was so hyped for Mystery Men, because I was in love with Janeane Garofalo that year. The movie is honestly subpar, but I drug the Colonel to it anyway. This is honestly Smash Mouth at their best, and everyone can take that anyway they like
Ocean Avenue: slightly confusing, completely heart melting. And the sky, good god I just want to ride down the highway forever under that sky in the last shot.
Keep Fishin’: The music biz’s equivalent of Kingdom Hearts. Weezer and the Muppets. You can see the disdain in Rivers’ eyes the whole time, but you can still tell he knows he’s making a masterwork.
honorable mention: Perfect Situation. You never see Rivers coming, NEVER.
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K- @ 05/20/2007 10:43 PM EDT
Niqel- great survey question…1979 is my favorite SP song by far.
Pictures of You and Friday I’m in Love-The Cure
Where the Streets have No Name-U2
Glycerine-Bush
Heart Shaped Box-Nirvana
Alex Chilton- The Replacements (even though it was essentially nothing)
I know this is the worlds most recycled opinion, but I wish I could sit and watch videos on TV without the dumb stuff. Sure you can do it on Youtube, but it’s nothing close to the same.
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kb @ 05/20/2007 10:51 PM EDT
I honestly wish that the Ataris, Our Lady Peace, and Counting Crows would put out DVD compilations of their videos. I’ve seen about 2 from each, and I know they are the kind of bands that make quality videos. The only video collection I really have is International Superhits! Don’t get me wrong it’s great, but far from enough.
Is it just me or are too many bands doing Cure covers lately. Especially Love Song and Pictures of You. I want to stab them all in the eyes, honestly. If a band does a good cover, I’m all for acknowledging it, but I’ve yet to hear a good Cure cover. 311 needs to serve 6 terms in hell. Oh yeah, that song is all about sitting in an island-themed bar and having girls make “f*** me” eyes at you. FAIL.
I adore the version of Somewhere over the Rainbow on the 50 First Dates soundtrack though. Always make me feel all warm and fuzzy.
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K- @ 05/20/2007 11:08 PM EDT
So, I got some Apple Jacks today, and they weren’t just ordinary Apple Jacks - they were Apple Jacks Crashers. This has to be the most bizzare/pointless marketing of cereal ever. There’s a story on the box about “Apple” and “Cinna-Mon” somehow crashing together and they get stuck. It basically looks like Cinna-Mon is stuck down through Apple. Anyhow, I guess they needed a story on why they A.J.’s machine started pumping out weird shapes (looks like a circle with a line through it) and used this one. I mean, really - what normal human being is ever going to come up with that as a real seller? You can click my name to see the official website.
Favorite videos: “Closer” by NIN. Microphone + Trent’s tongue = need I say more?
His “Only” video was pretty cool, too.
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Ryane @ 05/20/2007 11:37 PM EDT
OH! I forgot to mention “Take On Me” by A-ha! (An aside.. the Reel Big Fish cover is really good if you like ska) Kingdom Hearts II note: I now hate Xaldin… stupid lances!!
He’s not a favorite personality wise, but Xaldin certainly does give you a run for your money. Have to use that Learn reaction command judiciously.
Wait til you get to Xigbar. The surfer-talking dude who taunted you back when you first got to Hollow Bastion. He has guns and he is quite possibly the toughest normal boss in the game. Tougher than Sephiroth. To me, anyway.
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K- @ 05/20/2007 11:45 PM EDT
fever and bronchitis?! in May?! damn man… get well soon.
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Double G @ 05/21/2007 12:05 AM EDT
Here’s to Matt, our fearless leader. Cheers to ya buddy.
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Joe @ 05/21/2007 12:31 AM EDT
I like Parabol/Parabola by Tool and Don’t Worry be Happy by Bobby Mcferin for the same obvious reason, so I won’t chose one over the other.
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dohopoki @ 05/21/2007 12:35 AM EDT
K-, Basketcase is a fantastic song, and “Dookie” is by far my favorite Green Day CD. It’s something that takes me back to the few good parts of high school. It seems like that CD was always playing in my friends’ cars.
Favorite videos? Man, I don’t think I’ve even SEEN a video in about 10 years. Even so…
Billy Idol- Rock the Cradle of Love- Man, that nerdy dude was just so funny to me. It’s so pathetic that I have become that which I ridiculed.
Rammstein- Sonne- It’s a kickass song even if you don’t know German. The Snow White parody where she’s an abusive drug addict who spanks the band for not mining enough gold (a stand-in for cocaine) is so cool.
Red Hot Chili Peppers- Scar Tissue- I like this one mainly for the Pontiac Bonneville converitble they are driving around at the end. I had a buddy who had the exact same car in high school. It was freakin’ huge. When the weather was good, we’d load it up with about 10 people and just go cruise aimlessly. Good times, good times.
White Zombie- Thunderkiss ‘65- This video is so cheesy it’s good, and it is DEFINITE X-E fare. Go-Go dancers aside, Death (wearing long-johns) hitches a ride with a Mexican wrestler and they both end up drinking champagne with the Frankenstein monster. Awesome.
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spaz307 @ 05/21/2007 12:50 AM EDT
I have finally found and bought Stephen Colbert’s Americone Dream ice cream! I shall try it tomorrow and tell you how it is. For the Long Island X-Eers, I found it at Shop-Rite (accoridng to the B&J’s site, besides B&J shops, the only locations near me are all Shop Rites)
As for best music vid?
Weird Al’s “Fat” is probably the best video he ever did, closely followed by “Amish Paradise” and “White & Nerdy”
And not one person has said the Beastie Boys classic “Sabotage”? Definately one of the best videos ever made.
As for Green Day, may I offer up the vid for “Longview” from the Nimrod album. Very awesome song, and one of my favorite GD songs (”Basket Case” is right up there, but I like “Longview” a little bit more)
one of my favorite videos has always been “Catch” by the Cure, simple but perfect. I don’t know where they were, looked like the south of France or something but it looked really chill.
dunno why but i happened to see a mtv show about hillary duff (and actually watched it) but she was jammin out to boys don’t cry in a makeup room or something, was a lil odd. she wouldn’t strike me as a cure fan
Robert Smith and any diehard Cure fan right now are all asking the same question: What is Colonel DeBeers doing these days?
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the politically correct concerned citizen Josh Ednoff @ 05/21/2007 8:58 AM EDT
Beastie Boys - Sabotage
Weezer - Buddy Holly
Pearl Jam - Do the Evolution
Michael Jackson - Thriller (of course)
Chris Cunningham has made some great videos, too many to list off. Aphex Twin, Bjork, Portishead, etc…
Just to name off a couple of my favs.
Well Matt, here I am thinking I’m the only one in the world that’s able to catch a cold in 80 degree weather, but it seems you may have one-upped it and gone balls out and claimed a slice of the flu pie for yourself… show off. Well get feeling better soon.
dallasmovie, she probably isn’t really a cure fan, but these days it’s cool to listen to the cure. Then again, when you’re responsible for such chart-topping smash hits like “Come Clean”, perhaps you do have an ear for music.
The perfect time for the next Rambo movie would have been right after 9/11. Would have made tons of money back then when everyone was pseudo patriotic. Too late now. Although I am intrigued by all the gore.
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meepy @ 05/21/2007 9:31 AM EDT
I actually heard that Robert Smith was working on something with Ashley Simpson, which makes me ill.
And I am adding Sabotage to my list. I think that is Beatie Boys greatest albumn, both musically and lyrically. IMO I think becaues it was after their juvenile phase and before they became all buddah in your face.
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kb @ 05/21/2007 10:15 AM EDT
Robert Smith working with Ashley Simpson? Michael Jackson running a daycare center is less creepy! License to Ill is THE Cult Hall O’ Fame choice for the Beasties for old time sakes, as well as to make me forget that they are a bunch of Nancy-Boy SuckAsses now.
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the politically correct concerned citizen Josh Ednoff @ 05/21/2007 10:35 AM EDT
When I was younger I had the good sense to tape certain music videos on MTV/VH1…I haven’t watched those tapes in awhile, but I do remember “Linger” by the Cranberries, “Come Unndone” by Duran Duran and that Snoop Dogg vid when everyone actually turns into dogs were just some of the many I snagged. I miss those days when the music channels actually played music…
Feel better, Matt…I hate getting sick in the spring/summertime…It’s so unfair.
Happy SNT to all…On a Monday.
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Mary Mary @ 05/21/2007 10:55 AM EDT
Man, now I’m sorry I was so busy yesterday. By the time I got home I went straight to bed…
Not sick like Matt, but I have the most awkward sunburn ever: my forhead and scalp. I look like I’m constantly angry….
And K- (not to bring this back up, but) I completely agree and give mad props for your standing up. I always hate it too when people pop in here and bitch about Matt not being around enough…geez, he’s just one person. And it’s not that I want us to be like a reclusive click, but people should be a little more understanding of “how things work” and that he’s gone for awhile sometimes. The worst to me are the ones that post “Is Matt quiting? Is he dead?” or whatever like two days after a recent post…no offense to anyone -not really- but come on….and K-, I hope I never incur your wrath :P And people that asked if he died, look at what you did to him with your bad karma thoughts…shame shame….
Anywho, I used to look foward to Weird Al and (I’m okay with saying) Michael Jackson videos like they were Christmas when I was a kid. But favorite video of all time? I’ll have to think on that one; it’s a toughy…but I know I watched f’n ‘Sledgehammer’ like it was the greatest thing in the history of man whenever it came on.
Also, I will join the I-Pod nation today…my old Dell MP3 player finally retired; we had a great run. But my non-conformist side is screaming at me. First it was the MySpace and now the IPod. What’s next? Facebook? Fergie CDs? American Idol voting? Starbucks? I hope I can keep my individuality intact….
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Shuanfu @ 05/21/2007 11:24 AM EDT
Is Matt dead?
lol.
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meepy @ 05/21/2007 11:46 AM EDT
Favorite videos? Well, it is nice to see so many Smashing Pumpkins fans on here! They were/are one of my most loved groups ever- 1979 and Today would be my favorite Pumpkins videos.
Aside from the Pumpkins, I also love “Island in the Sun” by weezer, “real love” by The Beatles and that one by Radiohead…where everyone is laying on the ground…I am drawing a blank.
“November Rain” by GnR too, of course.
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Muppet Baby @ 05/21/2007 12:01 PM EDT
Pet Cemetary by the Ramones.
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meepy @ 05/21/2007 12:03 PM EDT
My favorite music video may just be “You Can Call Me Al” by Paul Simon. That’s the first one that comes to mind. I also have to give props to Foo Fighters’ “Big Me” with all the Mentos parodies back to back. That was really different in its time. As for Weird Al, I’m partial to his “Eat It” video because I appreciate that he had the same principle dancers from Michael Jackson’s video, which made it extra funny. Also, if I’m flipping past CMT and Travis Tritt’s “Tell Me I Was Dreaming” is on, I have to stop. It’s like a TV movie wrapped up in four minutes, complete with dialogue. (”Congratulations Mac, you have a beautiful, healthy little girl” “What about Annie?” “We lost her, Mac, I’m sorry.”) So much drama it should have won an Emmy!
Funniest for all the wrong reasons was N*Sync’s (I never remember just where that asterisk goes) “Drive Myself Crazy” where they’re singing sincerely in straight jackets. So bizarre. I heard they caught a lot of flak for that from mental health organizations. I don’t think I’ve watched many videos since then.
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Lori @ 05/21/2007 12:48 PM EDT
Lori - Great video! “Big Me” completely slipped my mind. Honourable mention goes to “Southern California” by Ash (as seen on Beavis and Butthead). Any video that consists soley of a guy on fire running the streets is A-OKAY with me!Anyway.. there should be a X-Entertainment myspace group. If there isn’t already! If there is.. someone should put up a link!
I’m glad Lori said Paul Simon because the MTV video anthem has to be Me and Julio down by the Schoolio! “I’m on my way” *come now people, you know the words* “I don’t know where I’m goin” *join in anytime now* “I’m on my way” *Everyone all together now* “Me and Julio down by the schoolyard” Breath of fresh air like eating organic baby carrots at Saturday Market!
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the politically correct concerned citizen Josh Ednoff @ 05/21/2007 1:44 PM EDT
this site used to be good. I liked the movie reviews. I liked everything really. Can anyone tell me what the hell happened?
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Anonymous @ 05/21/2007 2:08 PM EDT
Shaun: I LOVED Sledgehammer…Awesome. I always thought Peter Gabriel would be a fun person to hang out with in real life…
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Mary Mary @ 05/21/2007 2:22 PM EDT
And when did X-E become non-good?
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Mary Mary @ 05/21/2007 2:25 PM EDT
My favorite music video is “I Want to Break Free” by Queen, but that’s only because they’re in drag for half the video and the other half is insane avant garde crap… you’d ha
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